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    Default Arabs are taking over bodybuilding!

    Any star you see in most mags its an Arab! Do you think they will own the bodybuilding scene soon? I do

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    Quote Originally Posted by Poker face Ace View Post
    Any star you see in most mags its an Arab! Do you think they will own the bodybuilding scene soon? I do

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    Quote Originally Posted by Poker face Ace View Post
    Any star you see in most mags its an Arab! Do you think they will own the bodybuilding scene soon? I do
    Nasser El Sonbaty much? Samir Bannout? Mohamed Makkawy? Mohammed Benaziza? It's not like yesteryear was lacking in bodybuilders from the Arab world.

    Fouad Abiad was born in Windsor, Ontario, Canada, and is of Lebanese heritage.

    Mamdouh 'Big Ramy' Elssbiay is an Egyptian-born Kuwaiti.

    Who else? I'm sure it's not a short list.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Curt James View Post
    Nasser El Sonbaty much? Samir Bannout? Mohamed Makkawy? Mohammed Benaziza? It's not like yesteryear was lacking in bodybuilders from the Arab world.

    Fouad Abiad was born in Windsor, Ontario, Canada, and is of Lebanese heritage.
    PFA, with his Kindle can only remember so much so far back.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mac View Post
    PFA, with his Kindle can only remember so much so far back.
    I hesitate to pick on anyone's memory. Lean pretty heavily on Google myself, but I dooooo remember, oh, SOMEONE FROM LEBANON WAS MR. OLYMPIA! lol

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    Quote Originally Posted by Curt James View Post
    Nasser El Sonbaty much? Samir Bannout? Mohamed Makkawy? Mohammed Benaziza? It's not like yesteryear was lacking in bodybuilders from the Arab world.

    Fouad Abiad was born in Windsor, Ontario, Canada, and is of Lebanese heritage.

    Mamdouh 'Big Ramy' Elssbiay is an Egyptian-born Kuwaiti.

    Who else? I'm sure it's not a short list.
    A lot of this is true. I reminded of a photo or two in the Pumping Iron book (which is from when - 1975?).

    What might be true is, for now while there's still oil, they have the money that, if they wanted to, they could dominate bodybuilding in terms of shows and prize money. All it'd take is one prince / sheikh to show an interest with their pocket money and boom. It nearly happened with the NABBA Mr U back in the day with John Paul Getty.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mobster View Post
    A lot of this is true. I reminded of a photo or two in the Pumping Iron book (which is from when - 1975?).
    The first edition 1973. IIRC there were some shots from a show in Baghdad I believe.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Curt James View Post
    Nasser El Sonbaty much? Samir Bannout? Mohamed Makkawy? Mohammed Benaziza? It's not like yesteryear was lacking in bodybuilders from the Arab world.

    Fouad Abiad was born in Windsor, Ontario, Canada, and is of Lebanese heritage.

    Mamdouh 'Big Ramy' Elssbiay is an Egyptian-born Kuwaiti.

    Who else? I'm sure it's not a short list.
    Aka bulletproof George farah

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    Quote Originally Posted by Curt James View Post
    Nasser El Sonbaty much? Samir Bannout? Mohamed Makkawy? Mohammed Benaziza? It's not like yesteryear was lacking in bodybuilders from the Arab world.

    Fouad Abiad was born in Windsor, Ontario, Canada, and is of Lebanese heritage.

    Mamdouh 'Big Ramy' Elssbiay is an Egyptian-born Kuwaiti.

    Who else? I'm sure it's not a short list.
    Well sure but now they are recruited and live in Bader's frathouse of juice and chicken.

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    Quote Originally Posted by toxic Avenger View Post
    Well sure but now they are recruited and live in Bader's frathouse of juice and chicken.
    Or Muscle Factory, as he has put on the wall when you walk in.

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    Agreed. Also, arabs, at least most top pros put bodybuilding on the map imo lets not forget

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    Quote Originally Posted by Poker face Ace View Post
    Agreed. Also, arabs, at least most top pros put bodybuilding on the map imo lets not forget
    An Austrian put bodybuilding on the map.

    There's a strong argument for a Cuban as well.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Poker face Ace View Post
    Agreed. Also, arabs, at least most top pros put bodybuilding on the map imo lets not forget
    Are you kidding here? Most of the forerunners of who were seriously pushing physical culture, nutrition, and bodybuilding as we know it at the turn of the century, aside from Jewish Joe Weider, were white: Bernard McFadden, George Eiferman, George Hackenschmidt, Charles Atlas, Jack Lalanne, and so on.

    There have been quite a few great Middle Eastern and Arab bodybuilders though, with one being Mr. Olympia, Samir Bannout.
    Last edited by BrickHead; 03-01-2016 at 01:22 PM.

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    People from the Levant, Egypt and Persia are not Arab. FYI

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    Quote Originally Posted by UKwildcat View Post
    People from the Levant, Egypt and Persia are not Arab. FYI
    "The Arab World consists of 22 countries in the Middle East and North Africa: Algeria, Bahrain, the Comoros Islands, Djibouti, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Mauritania, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, the United Arab Emirates, and Yemen."
    Nov 29, 2009, www.adc.org

    Did Egypt opt out?

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